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And yet, Linux Desktop still is not dominant, even only counting desktop computers. Hmm...
As people use desktops less and less, they care less and less about what runs on them.
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I love the idea of Apple being more privacy focused, and helping us keep our data more secure. I have a touchbar macbook pro, and a headphone-jackless iphone. I just wish they wouldn't beat me with their opinionated hardware and software choices. Deprecating open gl. Eliminating 32-bit support. Forcing me to use dongle after dongle (ethernet, usb-A, HDMI, and SD card) Magic mouse has such a terrible sensor, not to me…
Perhaps we should all keep and maintain a Linux machine in the event that Apple and Microsoft both decide to screw us over.
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I love the idea of Apple being more privacy focused, and helping us keep our data more secure. I have a touchbar macbook pro, and a headphone-jackless iphone. I just wish they wouldn't beat me with their opinionated hardware and software choices. Deprecating open gl. Eliminating 32-bit support. Forcing me to use dongle after dongle (ethernet, usb-A, HDMI, and SD card) Magic mouse has such a terrible sensor, not to me…
Perhaps we should all keep and maintain a Linux machine in the event that Apple and Microsoft both decide to screw us over.
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I've seen IE launch itself at times after a reboot. When the OS updates & reboots, a lot of apps take this opportunity to update themselves, or maybe its the default behavior on system boot, who knows. After the update they decide to send you to their website - but they fuck up the API call and so IE just shows the default homepage.
But why IE? Why not Edge? IE hasn't been the default browser for years. And iirc Edge shows some shitty news feed "new tab" screen (without ads). It's still crap, but less crap than msn.com :-)
Windows does have an annoying feature (which can be turned off, but it's not obvious) where apps will relaunch after reboot, perhaps that was the cause, but we don't know.
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Have you used windows 10 recently? I didn't realize how bad it was until I installed a fresh copy of windows 10. My backup windows machine has so many registry patches to disable the crapware that I didn't recall how bad it truly is by default.
Ads in the start menu and on the lock screen are apparently perfectly normal to end users now. It's honestly just sad.
The OP is making the equivalent complaint of running a full Ubuntu shell complete with the Ubuntu One store running in the background after starting up Gnome, and complaining that Canonical owes him CPU-time.
Well, yeah, you logged into a interactive user session in a desktop user-oriented operating system!
This is the case of the person who goes to a doctor and says, "It hurts when I do this". The answer: "Then don't do that!"
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I love the idea of Apple being more privacy focused, and helping us keep our data more secure. I have a touchbar macbook pro, and a headphone-jackless iphone. I just wish they wouldn't beat me with their opinionated hardware and software choices. Deprecating open gl. Eliminating 32-bit support. Forcing me to use dongle after dongle (ethernet, usb-A, HDMI, and SD card) Magic mouse has such a terrible sensor, not to me…
I agree that the lack of hardware choice (or different "opinions" like a matte screen or smaller phones) is probably Apple's biggest flaw. But they're on a different level. One is an inconvenience, the other is utter disrespect of your privacy.
By the way, if you need a matte screen, third-party screen filters can help there.
I got a Kensington “Privacy Guard” that attaches magnetically and can be flipped around between the gloss or matte side. It may be slightly blurry at times but after getting comfortable with the reduction in glare and reflections, I dislike going back to the default Mac screens.
https://www.apple.com/shop/product/HLXJ2ZM/A/kensington-mp15...
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Perhaps we should all keep and maintain a Linux machine in the event that Apple and Microsoft both decide to screw us over.
Linux machines are fantastic if you don't need to use commercial software for things like graphics, as many web-focused developers do.